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Research Interests
Parallel and distributed systems, high performance scientific computing,
scalable web services, and information retrieval.
Tao Yang received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang
University, China, in 1984, the M.E. degree in Artificial Intelligence
from Zhejiang University in 1987. He received the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1990 and
1993. He joined the Department of Computer Science at UCSB in 1993.
He is currently an Associate Professor. He has been the Chief Scientist
and Vice President of Research and Development at
Teoma Technologies for 2000-2001 and the Chief Scientist at
Ask Jeeves in 2001-2002,
where he directed the research and development of Teoma, a next-generation
web search engine.
Dr. Yang is an Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems . He has
been a program committe member or chair for a number of high performance
computing conferences. Dr. Yang received the Research Initiation
Award from NSF in 1994, UC Regents' Junior Faculty Award in 1994,
the Computer Science Faculty Teacher Award in 1995 from the UCSB
College of Engineering, and the CAREER Award from NSF in 1997.
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